How the future began.
At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to enter space. However, the road to making history brings momentous challenges.
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Classical in form, earnest, epic and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- intimateepic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
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- Filipe Manuel Netoon TMDB · Jul 20238/10
**Overall, it's a good movie about the start of the space race.** The space race was one of the aspects that marked the intense rivalry between the USA and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. There was the notion that space could be a battleground or a zone of influence, as colonial territories had been decades before, and that the nuclear threat made it urgent to dominate space. That's why the Mercury Program was born, responsible for the first suborbital and orbital flights carried out by the USA. Directed by Philip Kaufman, the film is very good and very well made, even if, at times, it resembles an expensive advertisement for NASA and what was done by the North Americans in the space race. It is a long film, with three hours, but that is justified by covering a large period of time and giving us a very global view of the Mercury missions. This leads me to another problem: you need to have a minimal knowledge of the program and who was part of it to be able to understand everything the film shows, because there are not many explanations and the film presumes that the audience knows what they are watching. The cast is, perhaps, one of the most important aspects of the film, sin
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Cast
- Sam ShepardChuck Yeager
- Scott GlennAlan Shepard
- Ed HarrisJohn Glenn
- Dennis QuaidGordon Cooper
- Fred WardGus Grissom
- Barbara HersheyGlennis Yeager
- Kim StanleyPancho Barnes
- Veronica CartwrightBetty Grissom
- Pamela ReedTrudy Cooper
- Scott PaulinDeke Slayton
Crew
- Philip KaufmanDirector
- Philip KaufmanScreenplay
- Tom WolfeNovel
- Caleb DeschanelDirector of Photography
- Bill ContiOriginal Music Composer
- Glenn FarrEditor
- Lisa FruchtmanEditor
- Tom RolfEditor
- Robert ChartoffProducer
- Irwin WinklerProducer
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